Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despair, liberal Harvardians. There may be hope for you if your eye is on the upper chamber. Democrat Timothy E. Wirth '61 Tuesday was promoted from the House to the Senate by the people of Colorado...
...returns. Prominent Democratic liberals fell before conservative Republican challengers, contributing to speculation about right turns and electoral realignments. The 1986 Republican loss of eight seats undoubtedly will fuel counter-speculation about aborted realignments and receding conservative tides. But in 1986 as in 1980 there was less than meets the eye in the Senate returns...
Brandt's colleagues praise his ability to relate historical issues to the modern world, both in his scholarly work and in the classroom. "He has an eye for questions that are inherently historically interesting, but also have real meaning for today's issues," says Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the history of science...
...ballad is No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart, while the album has reached No. 8. The flamboyant singer, who recently posed for a saucy array of promotional shots, is in Italy working on a new video to keep the record rolling. Good as Lauper is at grabbing the eye on a half shell, her artistic rival Madonna found a way to reach the video generation without shelling out anything. She held a "Make My Video" contest on MTV, and more than 1,000 entries poured in. Last week a black-and-white amateur production set to her song True...
...payoff in a Jim Jarmusch movie. Stranger Than Paradise, a cult hit of 1984, cased its lowlifes with the metallic impassiveness of a closed-circuit monitor in a 7-Eleven store. You could find the proceedings funny or tedious; Jarmusch was too hip to care. He does have an eye, though, and aided by Cinematographer Robby Muller he makes Down by Law a ravishing shadow play. A canoe knifes through a tapioca swamp; the chiaroscuro that swathes a prostitute's body shows her proud and pouting; the long, matching faces of Lurie and Co-Star Tom Waits catch the furtive...